unsettled - Story 159447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug warmed his hands, but the tea did little to soothe the tightness in his chest. David sat on his bed, staring out the window at the rain. He felt a deep, instinctive aversion to everything in the room, everything in the world, that had been touched by his roommate. The walls seemed to close in, the air thick with unspoken things. He couldn't shake the image of his private thoughts being dissected, judged, by someone else.

Emotion: unsettled

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.33 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.65

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion unsettled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 unsettled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the unsettled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the unsettled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.382
`😞`	0.309
`ness`	0.301
`😣`	0.256
`😔`	0.248

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.721
`la`	-0.597
`a`	-0.365
`"`	-0.299
`l`	-0.274